hrp0094p2-447 | Thyroid | ESPE2021

Incidentally detected papillary thyroid cancer with elevated calcitonin in a 15 year-old female: A case report

Yang Jaejin , Lee Wonae , Yu Jeesuk

Thyroid cancer in children is not common but there is a tendency to increase requiring early suspicion and close monitoring of thyroid nodule. Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer and medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is rare, MTC can be suspected if there is elevated calcitonin level. A 15-year-6-month-old girl was admitted for generalized tonic seizure with fever. Initial Brain MRI showed a small oval diffusion restriction lesion in the midli...